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Chicago examiner vol vi no 290 a m tuesday november 24 1908 price one cent euvÂ«e by carrier rrvh-ca vise v-cmi 30 cents per mont the vatican confirms the examiner in kaiser interview british house of lords votes 74 to 32 to adopt defensive measures special cable to the examiner r aris nov 23 le matin the most enterprising * newspaper m paris pub lishes a rome telegram to-day stating that the vatican possesses the com plete text of the imperial kaiser interview which the Chicago ex aminer published m substance the portion which deals with the holy see is very important and contains far graver allegations than those on political questions as ?. consequence the feeling against emperor william is grow ing especialh r m the higher spheres df the vatican tn view of these facts le matin says it is quite evident that the Chicago examiner's pub lication is accurate but that the examiner itself has not told all that it knows the echo de paris likewise to-night says we may look for the complete publication of the interview m the newspaper of mr hearst " le journal prints interview le journal of paris publishes to-day for the first time the en tire Chicago examiner interview under the head of the impor tant document made public by the Chicago examiner it says in spite of its authenticity we do not believe it will embroil england and germany libre parole as well as other papers announces that a full text will shortly appear iii the chica go examiner the figaro says the london correspondent ot the Chicago examiner sailed for new york last saturday with full proofs of the interview the ac tions of other newspapers m eu rope and america show the pub lication of the Chicago exminer to have been of great importance and ie predicts that the complete interview will raise a new tempest m all europe an editorial m the paris edition of the new york herald says that the interview was calcu lated to create difficulties for ger many is clearly indicated m the negotiations undertaken by the german foreign oftice to obtain its suppression editor's note â€” the vatican is right the examiner did omit from its authentic report of the kaiser inter view some very strong references to the vatican one of which was as foi loics the emperor declared that arch bishop ireland was one of the worst enemies america has he is literally v jesuit watch out for ireland he made a victim uf Taft at rome but as most that the kaiser said on church matters did not relate to any public or political matter the examiner omitted them from the re port of the interview which it pub lished tift plans hot fight to oust cannon as speaker president-elect lines up his forces to down all re actionaries pick burton as leader congressman slated to repre sent progressive wÂ«ing m battle for life by wmliatv hoster washington i (.'.. nov ikj.â€”presi dent-elect Taft has not only decided that speaker cannon's almost absolute power ajwi tho hotu-e must tie broken by that the success of his administration is abso lutely dependent upon bis success m reduc ing to subjection the entire reactionary wing of the hepnbliean party of which the speaker and vice president-elect sliet man are the representative heads it can be stated upon the highest au thority therefore thai the first positive move of fhe new administration will lie to retire cannon and cut the brags of john dalzell se-reno payne and those other leaders m the house tfho co-operated with cauuorfcat tiie lasl session 'â€¢;' congress to ose ceil the policies to which the now i ptchideni is committed i"l â€¢ - president-elect looks upon cannon | ::^ an enemy t real tariff revision as well i us a consistent opponent of all the policies feer which progressive bepubllcanism j \ stands he realises as well as anybody j that in the election of mr sherman as \ ice president the reactionaries claim a '. victory for the reactionary policies for i which tlee-y stand lie knows that the nomination of mr ', sherman was brought about by the re ] nctlonarles at Chicago because they were ; able iv a erie>ii of confusion to agree upon < a vice presidential candidate at a tlmo when the tafi forces fieeh from victory jcould not concentrate upon a candidate / party faces crisis / but the presidentrelect from a careful analysis of the returns and aficr close consultation with liis friends has reached the conclusion thai the verdict at the polls on the ild of november was not so much a sweeping indorsement of the acts of the republican party as it was a vote of con fidence m him on assurance from the peo ple that they selected him as the lesser of two evils with a belief tbat he will make ii-e of the power delegated to him to rem toy the undoubted evils which exist the president-elect believes and m this belief he has many supporters that m tho ensuing four years the republican party vcill face the greatest crisis of its history involving its very existence and that upon the way m which he administers affairs will rest the fate of his party it is a simple question whether the pro gressive or the reactionary members of the party shall rule if they are not curbed the reactionaries will revise the tariff up instead of down if they are permitted i they will proceed on the theory that organ â– ized labor failed to show as a dangerous factor m politics m the last election and is therefore entitled to no consideration i these reactionaries are arriving m wash ington with a tentative programme which contemplates riding rough shod over every body but those who stood with the inter ests m the last campaign pick burton as leader the president elect has observed this tendency which is directly at variance with all ot bis views he knows that the reactionaries propose to take advantage ot ltoosevclt's retirement of aldrich's leader ship of the senate and sherman's power a presidiilg officer thereof and that they will make a hard tight to reseat cannon as speaker of the house Taft is perfect ly aware that if they succeed iv the open ing of the fight he will have these reaction aries on his shoulders through bis admin istratlon dragging him down he is therefore at work on the plan f campaign which means light from the h-eur after oath of office is administered to him tight sharp and vigorous for the battle must bo short representative burton probably will be 25 dead 100 injured 500,000 property loss in arkansas cyclone towns wrecked and farms devastat ed by tornado storm extends into louisiana and texas fort smith ark nov â– 23.-twenty live dead 100 injured and a property loss of 300,000 is the latest estimate of the damage wrought by a cyclone which swept through northeastern arkansas this after noon the greatest force of the storm was felt at ozark where mr and mrs john rosin and two children were killed at cravens four were killed and three fatally injured among the injured ore dr and mrs hill and dr crocker of lenall ark eight persons are reported missing at knoxville six persons are reported dead and twenty injured at russellville fifteen are reported kil''!d and scores injured but because of the tel ephone and telegraph wires having been destroyed the report cannot be confirmed the town of barr was nearly swept off the map the country between there and knoxville was laid waste farm houses were destroyed and many are thought to bave bee killed at berryville the methodist church was destroyed and the spire of the baptist church blown a distance of 150 feet sev eral residences and stores were demolished and many fere injured beac-mont tei nov 2s louisiana texas and arkansas are to-night being swept by a terrific rain and windstorm which originated on the louisiana coast telegraph and telephone wires have been blown down and railroads arc virtually at a standstill eldorado ark received the full brunt of the storm and a number of buildings were wrecked urges public schools for children of fashion winnetka society mother says brushing experience is good it is good for fashionable children to i mingle with the children of the world mrs charles g bolte who lives on the bluff at winnetka told the 100 fashionable members of the north end woman's club so yesterday afternoon at a meeting held iv the fashionable edgewater country club the theme was schools mrs bolte talked on the public schools miss estelle d loriug principal of the lorlng school on private schools and john d schoop principal of the vacation schools on his particular field of work i believe m public schools and coedu cation said mrs bolte our children cannot fail to profit by brushing up against the juvenile world at large encountered m the public schools one of my boy's classmates is a little german boy from the west side of the tracks who ls so bright he keeps my boy on his mettle constantly the tracks is the deadline in wiu r.etka lake pier at every street is planned plans of mayor's commission soon to be presented are on gigantic scale , subway part of scheme Chicago as the world's commercial center is the keynote of the report of the Chicago harbor commission soon to be made public the examiner has come into possession of a digest of the report ten days m advance of publication . \ if it is adopted and the work of building the great system authorized it will neces sitate the expenditure by the city alone of probably 50,000,000 and by railroad and other corporations of probably double that amount an area reaching from Chicago avenue on the north to lake calumet on the south with the lake as the eastern bound ary and halsted street ashland avenue kedzie avenue fortieth avenue and the city limits the western boundaries m places will be affected by the report a great railroad freight yard at stickuey near the city limits iv which could be handled ail the freight of all the roads entering the city would form the connect ing linliv between the railroads and the system of harbors suggested in the report subway an important factor the harbor commission is a semi-pub lic body appointed by mayor busse about a year ago with the sanction of the council after he had suggested the advisability of studying means of converting the water front of Chicago into a great harbor the like of which could not be equaled any where m the world its report is at present m the hands of the printer and within probably three weeks will be ready for discussion by the council the accomplishment of the plans of the harbor commission depend largely on the subway both improvements are planned to be built about the same time and the life of the one depends largely on the success of the other the harbor report comprehends a great system of slips from Chicago avenue on the north to south Chicago on the south with an interruption between the river and sixteenth street opposite grant park connection with the scores of harbors would be had through the railroads to be built north of the river and the Illinois central south of the river connection thence with the main railroad lines would be by subways would deepen lake calumet according to the provisions m the report the Illinois central would be forced to al low every other railroad to have tho use of its lines m affecting a connection with the docks from the river mouth to south chi cago the connection with the great yards at stickney into which would empty all the railroad freight from the outside world would be by means of the present belt lines and others to be built by the railroads themselves with the deep waterway m view are taken into the harbor diagram lake calu met and the calumet river the lake it self would lie deepened and equipped for the handling of large boats piers and docks would be built the foundation of the docks to be of the earth taken m dredging and the drainage system of that region eevuipped so as to form an available chan cel for handling shipping from the south terminal of the harbor system tracks on 2,000-foot piers as to the lake front itself the report will hold that a system of slips will be morel available than the buildiug of a harbor proper on the north side the slips would be probably half a blcck apart or at least far enough from one another to permit of the turning around of two large vessels south of sixteenth street the piers would bo probably a block apart to fifty-first | street and the same length from sixty seventh street to south Chicago the piers would run into the lake at some places l.otki feet at other places 2,000 feet railroad tracks would run the full length of the pie's one side of the slip would be used for loading the other for unloading the i-eport is signed by john m linen chairman alderman charles m l'oell al elcruian lectin p stewart former alder man peter i hoiriuaii c 11 conovcr f a leelano charles m wacker islia'.u randolph fleorge sykes and professor charles merriam committee asks steel king to discuss tariff washington d c nov 23 1 con sequence of the declaration of andrew car negie m an article m the forthcoming num ber of the century magazine that the tariff schedules on iron and steel should he reduced the ava and means committee to-night telegraphed tin invitation to mr carnegie to appear before it this week to tell what he knows about the steel industry ana the possibility of the reduction of the tariff on iron and steel products j.h.farrell victim of midnight attack veteran chief marshal of marching club assaulted m own home blames political foes captain james h far i for many years chief marshal of the county democracy marching club forme member of the legislature and a power m north side politics was attacked â– â€¢â€¢ his home 356 wells street early yesterday the assault was . committed apparently by a man engaged by farrell's political enemies shortly after midnight captain farrell and his wife were summoned to the door of their home by a map who was wrapped m a heavy overcoat and said that he had a matter of business to transact with the marshal of the democratic club what can i do for you asked captain farrell as he opened the door are you captain farrell asked the caller as the answer was given the stranger struck the venerable captain over the right eye and ln au instant the latter grappled with his assailant mrs farrell at the head of the stairs scveamed for lleip but when the neighbors th the adjoining flats arrived tbey found that captain farrell had been badly beaten and bruised ln spite of his defense at his home last evening captain farrell exhibited a badly discolored right eye and gave it ns his opinion that politics must have been to blame for the visit of the intruder i have been a democrat in this ward for so many years that i have lost the count said captain farrell hut there appears to be a stronger spirit than usual manifest in recent elections when the voters were called upon the last time to select a mem ber of the legislature from my district i made a gallant tight and i have a notion that it was so gallant that some of the op position decided to give me a lesson but i am still a soldier and it wiil take more than a blow by a coward who comes to my home after dark to keep me from doing what i think is right either m the way of politics or anything else dies in hippodrome as crowd cheers brother new york nov 23 frank melville one of the best known circus men m the world who for four years had been equestrian director at the hippodrome to-night died of heart disease behind the stage as the hippodrome's great audience applauded jeorge melville his brother for his act neither george nor the other players whom he directs knew of the deatli until rhe show was over melville entered circus life when he was thirteen he was til'ty-seveu years old there is not a b.g city m the world tbat he has not visited wi.h such circuses as the barnum &. bailey of which he was equestrian di rector changes name to fight for 2,000,000 estate i'eter l'omfret of 134-1 west fifty-first street is one of thirteen heirs who have decided to contest for a 2,000,000 estate tied up iv the english courts another contestant who was joseph w pomfrey a cincinnati publisher bad bis name changed yesterday to joseph spottswood pomfret that his claim might not be in validated the local contestant's cincinnati cousin has just returned from london and is extremely hopeful he says the estate consists principally of money m the bank of england and that it also includes a large business establishment the rightful heirs hare oceu sousbt for ten year coiners chiefs confess 140,000 conspiracy bared tronic tlirough ichom a confession of 50,000 counterfeiting con spiracy was secured man who financed the scheme and two alleged sell ers whom authorities are seeking m the south upper sketch show how the bills were printed the lower how counterfeiting plate was thrown into the river after tills had been printed six under arrest two sell ers are hunted in the south 37,000 is in circulation secret service men yesterday arrested tbiee men m the great onepapa counter feiting conspiracy forced tbem to confess and with two additional confessions from other prisoners cleared the boldest and most important coiniug plot m chicago's himory the man who made the plate for the 5 bills which have flooded Chicago st louis and southern cities was arrested and he told all the men who hired and paid him were arrested and they confessed the room where the bogus certificates were made m the dead of night was found and it was learned that the plate which stands une qualed for perfection m the history of counterfeiting has been thrown into the ohicago river it ls now known that the counterfeiting band made 40,000 of jhe bad bills and m spite of the as^ertic co of the prison ers that 20,000 of js vu into lake michigan at ksp captaiu thomas i port esvet ser.tee force here amount greatest destiny of woman is motherhood says calve opera star toronto ont xov js they come to me these young girls they come to me with their hopes and their fears and their ambitions for a musical career and i say to them " dear girl it is not a peaceful life it's n.et a natural life i is not the greatest o arts go fulfill your womanhood mar ry leave the stage fe>r those who are forcpd upon it your greatest destiny is to marry and lo be the mother of a large family mme kmma calve the great diva said this to-day with all the fervency of firm belief if she poses she does i so cleverly as to give to her appearance che charm of perfect naturalness do many giris renin i<i see me i should think so to every one who has eii'liitions tec go on the stage 1 give the same auswer the answer which i have told you i say to them : " if you liave no hemic uo money if you are absolutely vjjlthout affection if tliere is nothing else jou c-an do then sing yes sing lent if hot do anything else but that make corsets bats dresses 1 care not what lt is uot a life of pleasure that we artists lead â€¢ eat no we must be careful very careful and what we most enjoy we enus forego go for ji walk no it might in jure these throats of ours it is the won derful voice which must receive ail the care it is a hard life | standard oil bought ihe innovations of rivals rockefeller admits trust was not pioneer m any line of business did not form combint says he is sorry but flagler anci dodd deserve all the credit new york nov 22 that the standard oil trust was a pioneer m none of the various departments of the oil business was the admission which trust buster frank b kellogg wrung this after noon from the reluctant lips of john d rockefeller as tho richest man m the world ended his fourth day on the witness stand one of the excuses which 3lr rockefeller gave on direct examina tion for the phenomenal growth and success of the oil trust was that it had initiated much to-day step by step he was forced to disown the first pipe line the first refinery the first tank steamer and the first barrel fac tory mr kellogg desired to show that the only initiative the standard oil had shown was ln absorbing into a giant oil octopus the original activities of others he an ally framed this question then the principul initiation of the standard oil was the purchase of pipe lines tanks tank steamers refineries and business established by others has unpleasant half hour mr rockefeller seeing the trap flushed and sputtered on recovering he an swered i should think not i should think nor i should not properly represent my asso ciates if i said that the oil king had an unpleasant half houi when mr kellogg probed him about the dissolution of the standard oil trust of 1882 under orders of the supreme court of ohio mr itoekefeller did not want to admit that the ilquidating'trustees of which he was one had trifled with the court order and delayed the dissolution of the trust for years or until they were ready to re combine all the varied interests into the standard oil company of new jersey the present vehicle of the rust mr rockefeller was asked repeatedly if the trustees had uot continued to vote the illegal trust certificates for years after the dissolution of the trust had been or dered to avoid contempt proceedings m ohio tbey did not vote my stock was oue of mr rockefeller's evasions i do not remember about it wu3 ihe way be hurdled another question fails to recollect lie squirmed and twisted dodged and ducked forgot and failed to recollect uutil bis attorney moritz rosenthal came to his aid and admitted that some of tha outlaw trust certificates were not turned in until 1002 mr rockefeller promptly put the blame on the individual holders of trust certificates we could uot force them to exchan^o their certificates for stock be said with a smile of delight at having found the way out then without warning came a sharp demand for tho stock certificate books ot the standard oil trust mr kellogg ei plaincd that the government had sought information regarding tbem a year ago and had been absolutely blocked will you produce the books or cause a search to be made for them waa kel logg's demand mr rockefeller did not know where uie.v were and said h'3 had nut seen them for tweudk years but after a prod from mr h continued on 6th page 4th column / _______%__ continued c tnn t frrj "*** â€” munmimcrf m jl weather forecast ij ws Chicago and vicinity show 98 iy;n ers tuesday and possibly wednes f ! 4v y day continued warm probably foi \&_ 7 - vfl lowed by somewhat cooler wednes t â€¢ v a day increasing southerly winds be j^t km coming variable nn rr -! elsie janis greatest song hit gr^etc-hen 1 a song that will live words and music free with the next great sunday examiner place your order now remember . will be impossible to obtain a copy of this song at less than 25c after sunday tptmtohica 1 i nawlllainieÂ«iniliniefÂ«?r*'^~'~~~tat*Â»Â»avitr-j h delivers the goods m sk t'.c examinee's lost and found f'^f)t sp column if you have lost any r â€¢ thing try it j j __ phone randolph 2500 u

Chicago examiner vol vi no 290 a m tuesday november 24 1908 price one cent euvÂ«e by carrier rrvh-ca vise v-cmi 30 cents per mont the vatican confirms the examiner in kaiser interview british house of lords votes 74 to 32 to adopt defensive measures special cable to the examiner r aris nov 23 le matin the most enterprising * newspaper m paris pub lishes a rome telegram to-day stating that the vatican possesses the com plete text of the imperial kaiser interview which the Chicago ex aminer published m substance the portion which deals with the holy see is very important and contains far graver allegations than those on political questions as ?. consequence the feeling against emperor william is grow ing especialh r m the higher spheres df the vatican tn view of these facts le matin says it is quite evident that the Chicago examiner's pub lication is accurate but that the examiner itself has not told all that it knows the echo de paris likewise to-night says we may look for the complete publication of the interview m the newspaper of mr hearst " le journal prints interview le journal of paris publishes to-day for the first time the en tire Chicago examiner interview under the head of the impor tant document made public by the Chicago examiner it says in spite of its authenticity we do not believe it will embroil england and germany libre parole as well as other papers announces that a full text will shortly appear iii the chica go examiner the figaro says the london correspondent ot the Chicago examiner sailed for new york last saturday with full proofs of the interview the ac tions of other newspapers m eu rope and america show the pub lication of the Chicago exminer to have been of great importance and ie predicts that the complete interview will raise a new tempest m all europe an editorial m the paris edition of the new york herald says that the interview was calcu lated to create difficulties for ger many is clearly indicated m the negotiations undertaken by the german foreign oftice to obtain its suppression editor's note â€” the vatican is right the examiner did omit from its authentic report of the kaiser inter view some very strong references to the vatican one of which was as foi loics the emperor declared that arch bishop ireland was one of the worst enemies america has he is literally v jesuit watch out for ireland he made a victim uf Taft at rome but as most that the kaiser said on church matters did not relate to any public or political matter the examiner omitted them from the re port of the interview which it pub lished tift plans hot fight to oust cannon as speaker president-elect lines up his forces to down all re actionaries pick burton as leader congressman slated to repre sent progressive wÂ«ing m battle for life by wmliatv hoster washington i (.'.. nov ikj.â€”presi dent-elect Taft has not only decided that speaker cannon's almost absolute power ajwi tho hotu-e must tie broken by that the success of his administration is abso lutely dependent upon bis success m reduc ing to subjection the entire reactionary wing of the hepnbliean party of which the speaker and vice president-elect sliet man are the representative heads it can be stated upon the highest au thority therefore thai the first positive move of fhe new administration will lie to retire cannon and cut the brags of john dalzell se-reno payne and those other leaders m the house tfho co-operated with cauuorfcat tiie lasl session 'â€¢;' congress to ose ceil the policies to which the now i ptchideni is committed i"l â€¢ - president-elect looks upon cannon | ::^ an enemy t real tariff revision as well i us a consistent opponent of all the policies feer which progressive bepubllcanism j \ stands he realises as well as anybody j that in the election of mr sherman as \ ice president the reactionaries claim a '. victory for the reactionary policies for i which tlee-y stand lie knows that the nomination of mr ', sherman was brought about by the re ] nctlonarles at Chicago because they were ; able iv a erie>ii of confusion to agree upon < a vice presidential candidate at a tlmo when the tafi forces fieeh from victory jcould not concentrate upon a candidate / party faces crisis / but the presidentrelect from a careful analysis of the returns and aficr close consultation with liis friends has reached the conclusion thai the verdict at the polls on the ild of november was not so much a sweeping indorsement of the acts of the republican party as it was a vote of con fidence m him on assurance from the peo ple that they selected him as the lesser of two evils with a belief tbat he will make ii-e of the power delegated to him to rem toy the undoubted evils which exist the president-elect believes and m this belief he has many supporters that m tho ensuing four years the republican party vcill face the greatest crisis of its history involving its very existence and that upon the way m which he administers affairs will rest the fate of his party it is a simple question whether the pro gressive or the reactionary members of the party shall rule if they are not curbed the reactionaries will revise the tariff up instead of down if they are permitted i they will proceed on the theory that organ â– ized labor failed to show as a dangerous factor m politics m the last election and is therefore entitled to no consideration i these reactionaries are arriving m wash ington with a tentative programme which contemplates riding rough shod over every body but those who stood with the inter ests m the last campaign pick burton as leader the president elect has observed this tendency which is directly at variance with all ot bis views he knows that the reactionaries propose to take advantage ot ltoosevclt's retirement of aldrich's leader ship of the senate and sherman's power a presidiilg officer thereof and that they will make a hard tight to reseat cannon as speaker of the house Taft is perfect ly aware that if they succeed iv the open ing of the fight he will have these reaction aries on his shoulders through bis admin istratlon dragging him down he is therefore at work on the plan f campaign which means light from the h-eur after oath of office is administered to him tight sharp and vigorous for the battle must bo short representative burton probably will be 25 dead 100 injured 500,000 property loss in arkansas cyclone towns wrecked and farms devastat ed by tornado storm extends into louisiana and texas fort smith ark nov â– 23.-twenty live dead 100 injured and a property loss of 300,000 is the latest estimate of the damage wrought by a cyclone which swept through northeastern arkansas this after noon the greatest force of the storm was felt at ozark where mr and mrs john rosin and two children were killed at cravens four were killed and three fatally injured among the injured ore dr and mrs hill and dr crocker of lenall ark eight persons are reported missing at knoxville six persons are reported dead and twenty injured at russellville fifteen are reported kil''!d and scores injured but because of the tel ephone and telegraph wires having been destroyed the report cannot be confirmed the town of barr was nearly swept off the map the country between there and knoxville was laid waste farm houses were destroyed and many are thought to bave bee killed at berryville the methodist church was destroyed and the spire of the baptist church blown a distance of 150 feet sev eral residences and stores were demolished and many fere injured beac-mont tei nov 2s louisiana texas and arkansas are to-night being swept by a terrific rain and windstorm which originated on the louisiana coast telegraph and telephone wires have been blown down and railroads arc virtually at a standstill eldorado ark received the full brunt of the storm and a number of buildings were wrecked urges public schools for children of fashion winnetka society mother says brushing experience is good it is good for fashionable children to i mingle with the children of the world mrs charles g bolte who lives on the bluff at winnetka told the 100 fashionable members of the north end woman's club so yesterday afternoon at a meeting held iv the fashionable edgewater country club the theme was schools mrs bolte talked on the public schools miss estelle d loriug principal of the lorlng school on private schools and john d schoop principal of the vacation schools on his particular field of work i believe m public schools and coedu cation said mrs bolte our children cannot fail to profit by brushing up against the juvenile world at large encountered m the public schools one of my boy's classmates is a little german boy from the west side of the tracks who ls so bright he keeps my boy on his mettle constantly the tracks is the deadline in wiu r.etka lake pier at every street is planned plans of mayor's commission soon to be presented are on gigantic scale , subway part of scheme Chicago as the world's commercial center is the keynote of the report of the Chicago harbor commission soon to be made public the examiner has come into possession of a digest of the report ten days m advance of publication . \ if it is adopted and the work of building the great system authorized it will neces sitate the expenditure by the city alone of probably 50,000,000 and by railroad and other corporations of probably double that amount an area reaching from Chicago avenue on the north to lake calumet on the south with the lake as the eastern bound ary and halsted street ashland avenue kedzie avenue fortieth avenue and the city limits the western boundaries m places will be affected by the report a great railroad freight yard at stickuey near the city limits iv which could be handled ail the freight of all the roads entering the city would form the connect ing linliv between the railroads and the system of harbors suggested in the report subway an important factor the harbor commission is a semi-pub lic body appointed by mayor busse about a year ago with the sanction of the council after he had suggested the advisability of studying means of converting the water front of Chicago into a great harbor the like of which could not be equaled any where m the world its report is at present m the hands of the printer and within probably three weeks will be ready for discussion by the council the accomplishment of the plans of the harbor commission depend largely on the subway both improvements are planned to be built about the same time and the life of the one depends largely on the success of the other the harbor report comprehends a great system of slips from Chicago avenue on the north to south Chicago on the south with an interruption between the river and sixteenth street opposite grant park connection with the scores of harbors would be had through the railroads to be built north of the river and the Illinois central south of the river connection thence with the main railroad lines would be by subways would deepen lake calumet according to the provisions m the report the Illinois central would be forced to al low every other railroad to have tho use of its lines m affecting a connection with the docks from the river mouth to south chi cago the connection with the great yards at stickney into which would empty all the railroad freight from the outside world would be by means of the present belt lines and others to be built by the railroads themselves with the deep waterway m view are taken into the harbor diagram lake calu met and the calumet river the lake it self would lie deepened and equipped for the handling of large boats piers and docks would be built the foundation of the docks to be of the earth taken m dredging and the drainage system of that region eevuipped so as to form an available chan cel for handling shipping from the south terminal of the harbor system tracks on 2,000-foot piers as to the lake front itself the report will hold that a system of slips will be morel available than the buildiug of a harbor proper on the north side the slips would be probably half a blcck apart or at least far enough from one another to permit of the turning around of two large vessels south of sixteenth street the piers would bo probably a block apart to fifty-first | street and the same length from sixty seventh street to south Chicago the piers would run into the lake at some places l.otki feet at other places 2,000 feet railroad tracks would run the full length of the pie's one side of the slip would be used for loading the other for unloading the i-eport is signed by john m linen chairman alderman charles m l'oell al elcruian lectin p stewart former alder man peter i hoiriuaii c 11 conovcr f a leelano charles m wacker islia'.u randolph fleorge sykes and professor charles merriam committee asks steel king to discuss tariff washington d c nov 23 1 con sequence of the declaration of andrew car negie m an article m the forthcoming num ber of the century magazine that the tariff schedules on iron and steel should he reduced the ava and means committee to-night telegraphed tin invitation to mr carnegie to appear before it this week to tell what he knows about the steel industry ana the possibility of the reduction of the tariff on iron and steel products j.h.farrell victim of midnight attack veteran chief marshal of marching club assaulted m own home blames political foes captain james h far i for many years chief marshal of the county democracy marching club forme member of the legislature and a power m north side politics was attacked â– â€¢â€¢ his home 356 wells street early yesterday the assault was . committed apparently by a man engaged by farrell's political enemies shortly after midnight captain farrell and his wife were summoned to the door of their home by a map who was wrapped m a heavy overcoat and said that he had a matter of business to transact with the marshal of the democratic club what can i do for you asked captain farrell as he opened the door are you captain farrell asked the caller as the answer was given the stranger struck the venerable captain over the right eye and ln au instant the latter grappled with his assailant mrs farrell at the head of the stairs scveamed for lleip but when the neighbors th the adjoining flats arrived tbey found that captain farrell had been badly beaten and bruised ln spite of his defense at his home last evening captain farrell exhibited a badly discolored right eye and gave it ns his opinion that politics must have been to blame for the visit of the intruder i have been a democrat in this ward for so many years that i have lost the count said captain farrell hut there appears to be a stronger spirit than usual manifest in recent elections when the voters were called upon the last time to select a mem ber of the legislature from my district i made a gallant tight and i have a notion that it was so gallant that some of the op position decided to give me a lesson but i am still a soldier and it wiil take more than a blow by a coward who comes to my home after dark to keep me from doing what i think is right either m the way of politics or anything else dies in hippodrome as crowd cheers brother new york nov 23 frank melville one of the best known circus men m the world who for four years had been equestrian director at the hippodrome to-night died of heart disease behind the stage as the hippodrome's great audience applauded jeorge melville his brother for his act neither george nor the other players whom he directs knew of the deatli until rhe show was over melville entered circus life when he was thirteen he was til'ty-seveu years old there is not a b.g city m the world tbat he has not visited wi.h such circuses as the barnum &. bailey of which he was equestrian di rector changes name to fight for 2,000,000 estate i'eter l'omfret of 134-1 west fifty-first street is one of thirteen heirs who have decided to contest for a 2,000,000 estate tied up iv the english courts another contestant who was joseph w pomfrey a cincinnati publisher bad bis name changed yesterday to joseph spottswood pomfret that his claim might not be in validated the local contestant's cincinnati cousin has just returned from london and is extremely hopeful he says the estate consists principally of money m the bank of england and that it also includes a large business establishment the rightful heirs hare oceu sousbt for ten year coiners chiefs confess 140,000 conspiracy bared tronic tlirough ichom a confession of 50,000 counterfeiting con spiracy was secured man who financed the scheme and two alleged sell ers whom authorities are seeking m the south upper sketch show how the bills were printed the lower how counterfeiting plate was thrown into the river after tills had been printed six under arrest two sell ers are hunted in the south 37,000 is in circulation secret service men yesterday arrested tbiee men m the great onepapa counter feiting conspiracy forced tbem to confess and with two additional confessions from other prisoners cleared the boldest and most important coiniug plot m chicago's himory the man who made the plate for the 5 bills which have flooded Chicago st louis and southern cities was arrested and he told all the men who hired and paid him were arrested and they confessed the room where the bogus certificates were made m the dead of night was found and it was learned that the plate which stands une qualed for perfection m the history of counterfeiting has been thrown into the ohicago river it ls now known that the counterfeiting band made 40,000 of jhe bad bills and m spite of the as^ertic co of the prison ers that 20,000 of js vu into lake michigan at ksp captaiu thomas i port esvet ser.tee force here amount greatest destiny of woman is motherhood says calve opera star toronto ont xov js they come to me these young girls they come to me with their hopes and their fears and their ambitions for a musical career and i say to them " dear girl it is not a peaceful life it's n.et a natural life i is not the greatest o arts go fulfill your womanhood mar ry leave the stage fe>r those who are forcpd upon it your greatest destiny is to marry and lo be the mother of a large family mme kmma calve the great diva said this to-day with all the fervency of firm belief if she poses she does i so cleverly as to give to her appearance che charm of perfect naturalness do many giris renin i